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If you do not have a 2016 NWAL Rule Book you can download the entire book from WWW.nwal.org

A snip from page 12 for your convenience:

1. THE ENTRY LIST IS THE OFFICIAL ENTRY.

   The meet entry list shall be exchanged by Thursday at 6:00 P.M.  Exchanges (hard copy, e-mail, FTP and/or other means of file transfer) shall be completed simultaneously. Hard Copy exchanges shall be accompanied by an electronic file transfer using data diskette or other medium.  Failure to exchange at the agreed time may be classified as unsportsmanlike conduct, and may be subject to sanction by the League Officers. 

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   A snip from page 16 for your convenience:

   If you are using STUS for Meet Results Entry, all data is available immediately.  Many team leave their Saturday meet and immediately begin preparing entries for invitational.  If you are uploading from Meet Manager, it is imperative that you upload as soon as possible to allow team to prepare and make deadlines for these invitational.

   You also must provide a PDF of entries even if you are using STUS.  This would be your Meet Management>Pick your Meet> Meet Entry Detail Report by Swimmer. I recommend exchanging these via email after both teams have merged.  Verification that your meet is completely merged is by running the heat sheet and seeing both teams are on it.

   If you have any questions, please let me know.

   Karen Benefield

   [email protected]

   1. If, as a matter of convenience, both team officials agree to an exchange of data at a time other than the Thursday 6:00 P.M. deadline, then the lists become official at the time of the exchange, and no subsequent modifications shall be allowed except those normally permitted during the scratch meeting. If discrepancies are discovered before the meet begins that are clearly due to human error, the Meet Referee has the discretion to make any adjustments as long as written documentation has been presented.

   2. In the event that discrepancies in entries are discovered after the entries have been exchanged, the entry lists exchanged on Thursday shall be considered the official entry lists.

   3. A conversion factor of 1.11 shall be used whenever times need to be converted from yards to meters. Yard times shall be meter times divided by 1.11, and meter times shall be yard times multiplied by 1.11

   4. NWAL’s prescribed Team Management Software will be used for all NWAL Certified Meets and that includes Meet Entries, Relay Entries, Meet Exchange, Roster, and uploading results.Teams may use any other site software as communication and registration to their team’s participants

   5. If the Meet Referee neglects to sign the Official Score sheet after a meet, the results as indicated on the score sheet become official 15 minutes after completion of the last heat of the last event. The Official Score shall not be changed later, unless within 24 hours after the completion of the meet a Team Representative brings to the attention of the Meet Referee or an NWAL Officer an error which affects the outcome of the meet.

   6. For Dual meets, the host team shall upload the full electronic results (*.cl2 and *.mdb files (zipped)) to the NWAL Team Management Software within 48 hours of the conclusion of the meet.Failure to provide the results prior to this deadline shall be considered Unsportsmanlike Conduct, and shall result in disciplinary action at the discretion of the NWAL League Officers.

   7. Time errors that are discovered after the 48 hour upload period may be brought to an NWAL Officer's attention by the Meet Referee.The NWAL officer will review the error with the support of the teams involved and if this time is deemed to significantly impact the swimmer, the time will be adjusted.The change in time will not change the result score of the meet.